Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Gherardo Gherardi Gaspare Cataldo Carmine Gallone
Starring	Anna Magnani Tito Gobbi Hans Hinrich Gino Sinimberghi
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production company	Excelsa Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	2 October 1946
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.

The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.

Cast

• Anna Magnani as Ada
• Tito Gobbi as Marco
• Hans Hinrich as German Officer
• Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier
• Guido Notari as Doctor
• Tino Scotti as Mechanic
• Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand
• Joop van Hulzen as Webb
• Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand
• Carlo Duse as Police Officer
• Edda Albertini as Lena
• Heinrich Bode as German Soldier
• Antonio Crast
• Giulio Neri
• Ave Ninchi

Bibliography

• Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

External links

• Before Him All Rome Trembled at IMDb